For me it’s utility (which, being human, includes at least some consideration for empathy and sympathy). This isn’t to say correctness is at odds with utility—I’m not one of those “religion is the opiate of the masses”-type pseudo-intellectuals you so frequently encounter on anonymous message boards (although, perhaps ironically, I wouldn’t be shocked to learn Max is just such a self-congratulating quasi-elitist). Only that mere correctness is, by itself, nothing special.
Kierkegaard’s parable of a man escaped from a (in the parlance of his times) lunatic asylum comes to mind. The story goes that this poor, sick fellow, upon escaping from an asylum, considers that what got him locked up in the first place was always spouting fanciful nonsense, going on like a mad man—a raving lunatic—as it were. So, he reasons, if he is careful to only say true things going forward, he is sure to make good his escape: he’ll blend in with everyone else. After some thought, he seizes upon the idea of tying a ball on the end of a string to the end of a stick. He then walks about, carrying the stick over his shoulder such that the ball will swing, like a pendulum, and strike him on the rear with every step. Being struck by such a round object (as balls tend to be) will in turn remind him that the Earth, too, is round, and so every time he feels the ball on his rear, he will announce “The Earth is round!” It is true, is it not?
And yet, after just one afternoon of shuffling about town, bearing a stick with a ball on the end of a string, with the ball striking him on the ass with every step and so greeting everyone he encounters with shouts of “the Earth is round!”… wouldn’t you know it? They figure him for a mad man and lock him up in the lunatic asylum, right back where he came from. The poor guy just can’t catch a break!
All that to say, merely being correct about things is, to my mind, trivial. In fact, that’s pretty much the definition of trivial, with all its negative connotations for being information that is, at best, merely correct, but hardly useful.
And so, I don’t give two shits if what Max says is correct if, in doing that, the only facts he can muster are those that would, to the extent they are oft-repeated by a certain segment of the population, seem calculated to dehumanize others and deprive them of their basic rights, their human dignity.